The author's preface gives an outline: "This book is about weakconvergence methods in metric spaces, with applications sufficient to show their power and utility. The Introduction motivates the definitions and indicates how the theory will yield solutions to problems arising outside it. Chapter 1 sets out the basic general theorems, which are then specialized in Chapter 2 to the space C[0, l ] of continuous functions on the unit interval and in Chapter 3 to the space D [0, 1 ] of functions with discontinuities of the first kind. The results of the first three chapters are used in Chapter 4 to derive a variety of limit theorems for dependent sequences of random variables. " The book develops and expands on Donsker's 1951 and 1952 papers on the invariance principle and empirical distributions. The basic random variables remain real-valued although, of course, measures on C[0, l ] and D[0, l ] are vitally used. Within this framework, there are various possibilities for a different and apparently better treatment of the material. More of the general theory of weak convergence of probabilities on separable metric spaces would be useful. Metrizability of the convergence is not brought up until late in the Appendix. The close relation of the Prokhorov metric and a metric for convergence in probability is (hence) not mentioned (see V. Strassen, Ann. Math. Statist. 36 (1965), 423-439; the reviewer, ibid. 39 (1968), 1563-1572). This relation would illuminate and organize such results as Theorems 4.1, 4.2 and 4.4 which give isolated, ad hoc connections between weak convergence of measures and nearness in probability. In the middle of p. 16, it should be noted that C*(S) consists of signed measures which need only be finitely additive if 5 is not compact. On p. 239, where the author twice speaks of separable subsets having nonmeasurable cardinal, he means "discrete" rather than "separable." Theorem 1.4 is Ulam's theorem that a Borel probability on a complete separable metric space is tight. Theorem 1 of Appendix 3 weakens completeness to topological completeness. After mentioning that probabilities on the rationals are tight, the author says it is an

Convergence of probability measures

Preface to the revised edition Remarks on notation 1. Basic examples 2. Characterization and existence 3. Stable processes and their extensions 4. The Levy-Ito decomposition of sample functions 5. Distributional properties of Levy processes 6. Subordination and density transformation 7. Recurrence and transience 8. Potential theory for Levy processes 9. Wiener-Hopf factorizations 10. More distributional properties Supplement Solutions to exercises References and author index Subject index.

Lévy processes and infinitely divisible distributions

Real and Complex Analysis

(2003). Comparison Methods for Stochastic Models and Risks. Technometrics: Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 370-371.

Comparison Methods for Stochastic Models and Risks

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Nonlinear Functional Analysis And Its Applications

The aim of this article is to provide a systematic analysis of the conditions such that Fourier transform valuation formulas are valid in a general framework; i.e. when the option has an arbitrary payoff function and depends on the path of the asset price process. An interplay between the conditions on the payoff function and the process arises naturally. We also extend these results to the multi-dimensional case and discuss the calculation of Greeks by Fourier transform methods. As an application, we price options on the minimum of two assets in Levy and stochastic volatility models.

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Analysis of Fourier Transform Valuation Formulas and Applications

Recurrent tasks such as pricing, calibration and risk assessment need to be executed accurately and in real-time. Simultaneously we observe an increase in model sophistication on the one hand and growing demands on the quality of risk management on the other. To address the resulting computational challenges, it is natural to exploit the recurrent nature of these tasks. We concentrate on Parametric Option Pricing (POP) and show that polynomial interpolation in the parameter space promises to reduce run-times while maintaining accuracy. The attractive properties of Chebyshev interpolation and its tensorized extension enable us to identify criteria for (sub)exponential convergence and explicit error bounds. We show that these results apply to a variety of European (basket) options and affine asset models. Numerical experiments confirm our findings. Exploring the potential of the method further, we empirically investigate the efficiency of the Chebyshev method for multivariate and path-dependent options.

Chebyshev Interpolation for Parametric Option Pricing

Recurrent tasks such as pricing, calibration and risk assessment need to be executed accurately and in real time. We concentrate on parametric option pricing (POP) as a generic instance of parametric conditional expectations and show that polynomial interpolation in the parameter space promises to considerably reduce run-times while maintaining accuracy. The attractive properties of Chebyshev interpolation and its tensorized extension enable us to identify broadly applicable criteria for (sub)exponential convergence and explicit error bounds. The method is most promising when the computation of the prices is most challenging. We therefore investigate its combination with Monte Carlo simulation and analyze the effect of (stochastic) approximations of the interpolation. For a wide and important range of problems, the Chebyshev method turns out to be more efficient than parametric multilevel Monte Carlo. We conclude with a numerical efficiency study.

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Chebyshev interpolation for parametric option pricing

One of the fundamental problems in financial mathematics is to develop efficient algorithms for pricing options in advanced models such as those driven by Levy processes. Essentially there are three approaches in use. These are Monte Carlo, Fourier transform and partial integro-differential equation (PIDE)-based methods. We focus our attention here on the latter. There is a large arsenal of numerical methods for efficiently solving parabolic equations that arise in this context. Especially Galerkin and Galerkin-inspired methods have an impressive potential. In order to apply these methods, what is required is a formulation of the equation in the weak sense.The contribution of this paper is therefore to analyse weak solutions of the Kolmogorov backward equations which are related to prices of European options in (time-inhomogeneous) Levy models and to establish a precise link between the prices and the weak solutions of these equations. The resulting relation is a Feynman–Kac representation of the ...

Variational Solutions of the Pricing PIDEs for European Options in Lévy Models

The challenge to fruitfully merge state-of-the-art techniques from mathematical finance and numerical analysis has inspired researchers to develop fast deterministic option pricing methods. As a result, highly efficient algorithms to compute option prices in Levy models by solving partial integro-differential equations have been developed. In order to provide a solid mathematical foundation for these methods, we derive a Feynman–Kac representation of variational solutions to partial integro-differential equations that characterize conditional expectations of functionals of killed time-inhomogeneous Levy processes. We allow a wide range of underlying stochastic processes, comprising processes with Brownian part as well as a broad class of pure jump processes such as generalized hyperbolic, multivariate normal inverse Gaussian, tempered stable, and $\alpha$
 -semistable Levy processes. By virtue of our mild regularity assumptions as to the killing rate and the initial condition of the partial integro-differential equation, our results provide a rigorous basis for numerous applications in financial mathematics and in probability theory. We implement a Galerkin scheme to solve the corresponding pricing equation numerically and illustrate the effect of a killing rate.

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Kathrin Glau

Papers

Analysis of Fourier Transform Valuation Formulas and Applications

Chebyshev Interpolation for Parametric Option Pricing

Chebyshev interpolation for parametric option pricing

Variational Solutions of the Pricing PIDEs for European Options in Lévy Models

A Feynman–Kac-type formula for Lévy processes with discontinuous killing rates